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Article: Armenia, once a Soviet garden spot, seems to have squandered its promise.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 4, 1998
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STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh _ There is no heat, no electricity and no running water at the Armenian refugee hostel here, but residents can occasionally catch a glimpse of light at the end of the long, gloomy corridors. An Azeri bomb sliced off the side of the building a decade ago.
Arevik Aroutiunian has lived in this squalid, crumbling wreck since she was nine, in a tiny room with two beds for three people. It became her home in 1988 after stone-throwing neighbors attacked her house in nearby Azerbaijan and her family fled to the safety of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Christian Armenian enclave high in the Caucasus Mountains, nearly encircled by Muslim Azerbaijan.